Month:June 2024

Amazon today has a few discounts across popular Apple accessories, including the AirTag and Apple Pencil. We’re also tracking a few discounts on Eufy’s own Bluetooth tracking accessories, the SmartTrack Link, which are slightly more affordable than the AirTag. AirTag Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a …
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Apple did not mention CarPlay during its WWDC keynote this week, but iOS 18 includes a handful of new features for the in-car software. Overall, there is not a whole lot new for CarPlay on iOS 18, with changes seemingly limited to the Messages and Settings apps so far. Below, we recap everything new for …
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On this week’s special episode of The MacRumors Show from Apple Park, we look at all of the major updates coming to Apple’s operating systems later this year and Apple Intelligence. Subscribe to The MacRumors Show YouTube channel for more videos Monday’s keynote event was insane, and jam-packed with an overwhelming number of AI features …
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First introduced in April, spatial Personas in Apple Vision Pro are designed to feel as if they are in the same physical space, and to enhance the experience, the lifelike avatars will soon be able to interact directly with each other using some new gestures in visionOS 2. Previewed at WWDC last year, spatial Personas …
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Introduced in iOS 16, Live Activities changed the way users interact with their iPhone. Instead of getting multiple notifications when tracking a delivery or a sports score, for example, users see a single, dynamically updating Live Activity with real-time information right on their Lock Screen. Starting in watchOS 11, when a Live Activity begins on …
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In iPadOS 18, Apple has redesigned the tab bar experience in apps like Clock, Apple TV, and Apple News. Previously, tabs sat at the bottom of the standard app interface. When in portrait orientation, tab bars now sit at the top of the app interface to be closer to other navigation controls. Apple says having …
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With iOS 18, Apple is adding Game Mode to iPhone. A similar Game Mode was added to macOS Sonoma last year, and the same performance-enhancing features apply, according to Apple. When enabled, Game Mode optimizes the gaming experience by giving the game the highest priority access to your ‌iPhone‌’s processor, while lowering usage for background …
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Alongside its Apple Intelligence feature set, Apple on Monday announced a partnership with OpenAI that will allow Siri to access ChatGPT directly in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia to provide better responses in relevant situations. But according to a new Bloomberg report, nobody is paying cash to anybody for the arrangement. From Mark …
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